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Webster 1913 Edition
Instruction
In-struc′tion
,Noun.
[L.
instructio
: cf. F. instruction
.] 1.
The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
Syn. – Education; teaching; indoctrination; information; advice; counsel. See
Education
. Webster 1828 Edition
Instruction
INSTRUC'TION
,Noun.
1.
The act of teaching or informing the understanding in that of which it was before ignorant; information.2.
Precepts conveying knowledge. Receive my instruction and not silver. Prov.8.
3.
Direction; order; command; mandate. The minister received instructions from his sovereign to demand a categorical answer.Definition 2024
instruction
instruction
English
Noun
instruction (countable and uncountable, plural instructions)
- (uncountable) The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with information or knowledge.
- Students receive instruction in the arts and sciences.
- Instruction will be provided on how to handle difficult customers.
- 1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:
- Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”
- (countable) An instance of the information or knowledge so furnished.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- If my instructions may be your guide.
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- (countable) An order or command.
- 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:
- Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant, and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.
- 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, Prologue:
- (computing) A single operation of a processor defined by an instruction set architecture.
- A set of directions provided by a manufacturer for the users of a product or service.
Synonyms
- See also Wikisaurus:instruction
Translations
act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information
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that which instructs, or with which one is instructed
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order or command
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single operation of a processor
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set of directions provided by a manufacturer
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